Sep 28, 2017
Our community’s deeply committed seven members of the JFNA National Young Leadership Cabinet are among 300 dedicated young Jewish philanthropists and leaders ages 30-45 from across the U.S. and Canada preparing to strengthen our community and our people now and for generations to come.
Sep 28, 2017
Far from its proverbial snowbird roots, our Jewish community has grown and matured into one that a full range of generations proudly call home. We’ve become a place where our young adults return after college to multigenerational families and where young professionals move for our high quality of life. Meet some of our young people who have been inspired to follow their families into local Jewish leadership and philanthropy.
Sep 28, 2017
Strengthening Jewish engagement is vital to Federation’s mission, and the newly opened Moishe House in South Palm Beach County is aiming to do exactly that, thanks to generous support from local philanthropists Michael and Andrea Leven, and programmatic support and funding from our Federation.
Sep 28, 2017
Gardens on our Federation campus are enriching body, mind and spirit. Donna Klein Jewish Academy (DKJA), Katz Hillel Day School (KHDS), Jewish Association for Residential Care (JARC), and the Toby & Leon Cooperman Sinai Residences are teeming with green thumbs nurturing the soil and the soul.
Sep 28, 2017
A memorable 1982 mission to Israel with MetroWest New Jersey Federation sparked Adele’s lifelong passion for philanthropy and Jewish leadership, changing her life and starting her on the path she has continued to blaze in South Palm Beach County and beyond.
Sep 14, 2017
Women of all ages from throughout the Jewish community are invited to hear inspirational author, speaker and marketer Allison Nazarian’s story of love, life and legacy, as they open the women’s season for the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County on October 9. To accommodate their varied schedules, women may attend a 9:30 a.m. morning breakfast program or a 7:00 p.m. dessert reception, both at Woodfield Country Club, 3650 Club Place, Boca Raton.
Sep 14, 2017
The houses of worship, agencies and organizations that only two weeks ago formed Boca Delray Hurricane Relief in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey has shifted its concern to those in need following Hurricane Irma and opened a collection site on the Federation campus. The group is continuing its collection of supplies, and funds to purchase them, for urgent distribution where they are needed. So far, $450,000 has been raised and eleven trucks filled with supplies sent to areas most impacted by the storm.
Sep 13, 2017
Amid premium networking, business leaders and professionals from a wide array of fields will have a unique opportunity to hear from world-renowned, award-winning photographer Marc Serota. With over four decades shooting the biggest news, entertainment and sports stories, Serota will keynote the season’s second Lewis Katz Industry Icon Series event amid premium networking and breakfast on Tuesday morning, October 3.
Sep 1, 2017
Local estate professionals will share congenial company, prime networking, and a lively cocktail reception at the Federation’s Jacobson Jewish Community Foundation’s PAC Kickoff & Membership Drive Cocktail Reception. Gathered at the Renaissance Boca Raton Hotel on Thursday, September 28, 2017 at 5:30 p.m., they’ll also share their deep commitment to helping the Jewish community.
Aug 28, 2017
As Hurricane Harvey continues its rampage, the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County has established an emergency relief fund to support the Jewish and general communities bombarded by the storm. After tearing a path of destruction with Category 4 winds in southern Texas on Saturday, catastrophic, record-breaking rains continue. Unprecedented life-threatening flooding is spreading disaster across a large and widening area, including Houston, our nation’s fourth largest city.
Aug 15, 2017
We join in horror, grief and outrage at the hate-filled white nationalist rally that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday. We are sickened by the vile racism and anti-Semitism on proud display at one of the largest such gatherings in decades, including Nazi flags, imagery, salutes, slogans and quotes from Hitler. Even without this stark reminder, as Jews we know all too well the depths where intolerance and extremism meet.
Jul 27, 2017
Moishe House’s newest home in Florida for post-college adults to build a community rooted in Jewish values hosted a special reception and ceremony for nearly 60 young adults and community leaders on Sunday, July 16, when its residents affixed a mezuzah to the house’s doorpost. The new Delray Beach location is home to three dynamic young men – Daniel Kay, 27, Chaim Romano, 28, and Benjamin Scheiner, 26 – who, in addition to their full-time jobs, are creating Jewish life opportunities by hosting weekly programs for hundreds of Jewish adults in their 20s.
Jul 11, 2017
Children and families are invited by PJ Library® in South Palm Beach County to drop in between 5:30 and 7:00 p.m. at frozen yogurt shops around town for sweet treats on hot summer nights - and enjoy story time with local rabbis as well as arts & crafts. For a third year, Conservative, Orthodox and Reform synagogues are partnering with PJ Library for a “Sweet Summer Series.” Each Wednesday night through August 9, a rabbi from one of seven partner synagogues will read PJ Library stories.
Jun 30, 2017
Through triumphs and tragedies over the millennia, we have learned that the security and the well-being of Israel and our Jewish people rest on Klal Yisrael, our shared commitment to each other across differences of geography, culture and observance. Israel has always been defined as the homeland of all the Jewish people, with strong ties and responsibilities far beyond its own borders and citizens. Therefore, as leaders of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County, we were dismayed by this week’s stunning pair of decisions by the Israeli Prime Minister and his cabinet.
Jun 30, 2017
Before Shabbat and the holiday weekend, I want to update you on important developments here in Israel regarding the conversion legislation and the implementation of the 2016 resolution to establish a permanent egalitarian prayer space at the Kotel (Western Wall).
Jun 27, 2017
I am writing from the Jewish Agency meetings in Israel, where the Prime Minister and his cabinet have made a pair of decisions that together could threaten the unity of the Jewish people and diaspora-Israel relations. First, the Israeli government suspended the historic 2016 "one wall for one people" Kotel Agreement for cynical political reasons. Second, the government introduced a bill that, if passed, would return a full monopoly to Israel’s Chief Rabbinate regarding conversions. South Palm Beach County has been a national leader in understanding that pluralism is crucial for Jewish unity, and our voices are needed now.
Jun 22, 2017
More than 250 people recently shared a unique opportunity to hear from two former White House Jewish Liaisons. Noam Neusner and Matt Nosanchuk who served, respectively, in the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, shared the stage on May 22 at B’nai Torah Congregation, in an evening program presented by the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County.
Jun 19, 2017
Once again, a vibrant crowd from all across diverse Jewish South Palm Beach County came together in testament to the strength and joy of this united Jewish community. For a third year, the Jewish Unity Day event brought together local Jewish community leaders and members, to join with more than a million Jews in 24 countries across six continents in their own observances. The evening program was presented by the Deborah & Larry D. Silver Center for Jewish Engagement, a division of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County.
Jun 16, 2017
A committed delegation of sixteen leaders of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County and its Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) headed to DC on May 16 for the Federation’s first community Mission to Washington. They spent two days in briefings with experts and advocating with their Members of Congress and U.S. Senators on issues of high importance to the Jewish community. And they returned even more committed to raising their voices for the most vulnerable among us.
